Books of Federal government--United States--History
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Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency
By W. Thomas SmithJohn E. Craven, who has served the CIA from 1968 to the present 12. James H. Critchfield, who served the CIA from 1948 to ... Paul L. Howe, who served the CIA from 1956 to 1987 Fitzgerald, Desmond 99 26. SHERMAN KENT, who served the CIA.
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Warren G. Harding
By Neil HamiltonAfter the nation had gone through the upheaval of World War I and a tumultuous economic shift from farms to factories, Americans wanted a "return to normalcy."
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Laura Bush
By Dorothy SchneiderThough she avoids controversy and almost never speaks out on hot-button issues, Laura Welch Bush ranks herself as a feminist, expressing the hope that someday in the not-too-distant future a woman will serve as president of the.
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Abigail Adams
By Dorothy SchneiderAbigail Adams's ambition was matched by that of her husband, John Adams. She wanted him to exercise his abilities to the fullest, and also to give her the opportunity to exercise hers.
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Julia Tyler
By Dorothy SchneiderJulia Gardiner Tyler began life as a prototype of the self-centered, somewhat spoiled, wealthy young woman of her era.;Becoming first lady at the age of 24 to the recently widowed president John Tyler, she brought not only zest.
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Martha Washington
By Dorothy SchneiderRaised to be a southern belle and a plantation mistress, Martha Washington delighted in domesticity and would've been content as, in her words, an "old fashioned Virginia house-keeper." Yet when duty called her husband George,
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Barbara Bush
By Dorothy SchneiderA woman in tune with her class and times, Barbara Pierce Bush lived happily, married a man of similar background, had children, and helped her husband George H.W.
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Margaret Taylor
By Dorothy SchneiderMargaret Taylor, wife of general, war hero, and president Zachary Taylor, was once described as "a most kind and thorough-bred Southern lady." Although this description is apt, it doesn't take into account the strength she poss.
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Dolley Madison
By Dorothy SchneiderZachary Taylor once described Dolley Madison as "our First Lady for a half-century." Generous, warmhearted, and amiable, she would become the ultimate hostess, rejoicing;in the political and social worlds to which her second ma.
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Sarah Polk
By Dorothy SchneiderDuring a time when;women were expected to confine themselves to the domestic sphere and find fulfillment in service to others, Sarah Polk put her own ambitions, high intelligence, and political sophistication to the service of.
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Abigail Fillmore
By Dorothy SchneiderAbigail Fillmore was a self-made woman who married Millard Fillmore, a self-made man. Both of them trusted in the power of education, struggled to achieve it for themselves, and worked to make it available to others.
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Rosalynn Carter
By Dorothy SchneiderRosalynn Smith Carter's father believed she could do anything. Her husband Jimmy Carter held similar beliefs, and with;him she established a partnership in both their public and their private lives.
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Eliza Johnson
By Dorothy SchneiderA southern woman of modest means, Eliza McCardle Johnson suffered the deaths of her two older sons and endured treatment as an enemy in Confederate territory during the Civil War, threats on her husband Andrew Johnson's life, a.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
By Dorothy SchneiderA liberated woman with a strong sense of both public and private duty, Eleanor Roosevelt overcame the shyness she had in her youth to construct careers of her own in teaching, writing, and international diplomacy.;When she ente.
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Jane Pierce
By Dorothy SchneiderJane Means Appleton Pierce's hopes of being a happy wife and mother were shattered by the deaths of her three sons, from which she would never recover.
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Edith Wilson
By Dorothy SchneiderEdith Bolling Galt Wilson paid little attention to politics until she met the recently widowed president Woodrow Wilson, ;and paid even less to the gradual entry of women into the ranks of schoolteachers, clerks, and typists tha.
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Letitia Tyler
By Dorothy SchneiderLetitia Christian Tyler was a southern upper-class lady who, to the best of our knowledge, appeared to accept the politics and values of both her father and her husband John Tyler unquestioningly, including their views on slave.
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Florence Harding
By Dorothy SchneiderFlorence Mabel Kling Harding was, like many "New Women" of the Progressive Era, determined, competent, and independent, with a firm belief;in spousal equality and woman's suffrage.
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Louisa Adams
By Dorothy SchneiderThe wife of John Quincy Adams, Louisa Johnson Adams was;an accomplished translator of the classics, a creator of prose and poetry, and a perceptive critic of people and politics.
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Grace Coolidge
By Dorothy SchneiderGrace Goodhue Coolidge went to college and then got a job, taking advantage of the opportunities opened up by the 19th-century woman's movement.